Mission and Core Values
Their mission is to ensure the delivery of quality health care services to all the people in Kaduna State by providing clear policy directions and implementing all necessary health plans in collaboration with relevant stakeholders.
Their Core Values are:
- Professionalism They employ various health professionals who discharge their duties competently in an ethical manner
- Motivation They continuously build the capacity of their staff members and empower them for improved performance.
- Efficiency They uphold timeliness, responsiveness, effectiveness, appropriateness, accessibility, reliability, consistency, and sustainability in service delivery.
- Client Focus They deliver health services tailored to satisfying current and future clients’ needs through a holistic approach.
- Integrity They engage in consistent actions, values, methods, measures, principles, and practices which ensure accountability and integrity in making essential medicines and medical supplies available to all, and in sustainable regulation of all private health establishments.
Who they are
The Ministry of Health provides preventive, curative, pro-motive and rehabilitative health care services in line with government policies and plans; ensures the availability of essential medicines and medical supplies and regulates all private health establishments in line with the State and National health policies.
They supervise the following agencies and Health training institutions:
- State Primary Health Care Agency (SPHCA)
- Drugs and Medical Supply Management Agency (DMSMA)
- Kaduna State Agency for the control of AIDS (KADSACA)
- Shehu Idris College of Health Sciences and Technology, Makarfi (SICHST)
- College of Nursing Kafanchan (CON)
- School of Midwifery Tudun Wada, Kaduna.
